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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,009 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 07:32 PM Oct 2013

Texas woman stripped and jailed over unpaid traffic ticket

A north Texas woman said she was ordered to strip and then jailed over an overdue traffic ticket.

Sarah Boaz said she was cited in August for running a stop sign, but she later lost the ticket and failed to pay her fine.

She said she knew that was wrong, but she was still surprised Wednesday morning to find a Richland Hills city marshal waiting outside her home with an arrest warrant.

“I’m like, nobody puts out a bench warrant after 60 days,” Boaz said. “Why would you do that? You wouldn’t do that.”

She was taken to jail in handcuffs and a female officer ordered her to undress and stand against a wall.

Jail officials said undressing was standard procedure for anyone booked into the facility, but the police department said the search was not technically considered a strip search.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/25/texas-woman-stripped-and-jailed-over-unpaid-traffic-ticket/

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Texas woman stripped and jailed over unpaid traffic ticket (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
zero tolerance vs gymnophobia Trillo Oct 2013 #1
That is the next town over from me... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #2
When will Bush and Cheney be arrested? Octafish Oct 2013 #3
Yeah, but in 'murika, anything a Republican president does is a.o.k., even if illegal, in violation indepat Oct 2013 #4
Don't hold your breath malaise Oct 2013 #5

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
1. zero tolerance vs gymnophobia
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 07:53 PM
Oct 2013

If we want a society where people are clothed, and give out punishments for public nudity, then its not surprising that the forced undressing or strip search itself would be considered fearful and punishing in and of itself. It appears to be another example where our society forces particular morals upon us (because we are born naked), then uses the targeted breaking of those morals as a hierarchical power play.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
2. That is the next town over from me...
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 08:53 PM
Oct 2013

(I am in North Richland Hills). It is the one place where I rigidly drive the speed limit.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. When will Bush and Cheney be arrested?
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 08:56 PM
Oct 2013

They killed, what, a million Iraqis and all them thousands of American GIs. That's way worse than a parking ticket.

indepat

(20,899 posts)
4. Yeah, but in 'murika, anything a Republican president does is a.o.k., even if illegal, in violation
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 09:13 PM
Oct 2013

of international law, inhumane, destructive, fiscally irresponsible and ruinous, calamitous, ludicrously cost ineffective, grossly unfair/inequitable, hair-brained, un-American, unconstitutional, in violation of the rule of law, et al. If anyone has any doubt, just get the drift of the cacophonous exultation exuding from the MSM talking-heads.

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